Linda Chapman is Associate Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop, an off Broadway company located in Lower Manhattan.  She is also a playwright and performer whose work has been performed nationally and internationally.  As an Associate member of The Wooster Group from 1983-94, she served as Managing Director and performer.  Linda was also Administrator at Theater For The New City.  Linda is founding Artistic Director of Sang-Froid, Ltd., a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural arts producing organization.  She was one of the founding producers of Dyke TV/ DTV Productions, a volunteer, grass-roots cable television program currently viewed on public access stations throughout the country  Her projects have been awarded grants from the New York State Council for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation among others.

Daniel Osman is the owner and operator of the Dream Away Lodge located on the edge of October Mountain State Forest and the Appalachian Trail in the heart of the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. With over seventy-five years of history as a restaurant and music venue, the Dream Away is now building a retreat and workshop center on its fifty wooded acres.  Daniel worked in the theater for fifteen years and taught three years in Shakespeare and Company’s Shakespeare in the Schools program. He worked with the company as an actor, producer, director and marketing director.  He is presently involved with many of the Berkshire community arts and cultural organizations.

Bonnie Sherk is the Founder and Executive Director of Life Frames, Inc., and has developed a systemic approach to environmental transformation that integrates interdisciplinary, project-based learning, community ecological planning and design, and advanced communications technologies. She is trained as a landscape architect, planner and educator and also is a professional artist who exhibits her work in museums and galleries all over the world.  She has been creating Life Frames, A Living Library, and Think Parks around the country for over 25 years. She is a Smithsonian Laureate who has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and numerous foundations such as the Ford Foundation and Flow Fund.  She also works with city and state agencies in all areas where Branch Living Libraries are developed.  In 2001, she was named the Most Outstanding Healing Artist of the Arts and Healing Network by its Founder, Marion Rockefeller Weber.

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Deputy Director, Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education

Director, Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education